While the president has not fully kept his promise to get rid of criminality and drug abuse in his first six months, Duterte’s war on drugs has claimed more than 7500 drug-related deaths — which include allegations of extra-judicial killings.

Duterte’s recent threat to jail critics of his martial rule sent chills especially to the survivors of the Marcosian martial law.

After a year of Duterte presidency, the biggest question now is, will this politically divided country last another five years of division — or will Filipinos finally come together to make the Philippines a better place, regardless of politics?

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Philippine foreign affairs secretary Alan Peter Cayetano addressed the United Nations General Assembly for the first time over the weekend. He asked the international community to give president Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs the...